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" There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in. "

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" I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual. "

" I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. "

" What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same. "

" I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me. "

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" Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. "

" My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. "

" I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. "

" I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time. "

" If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. "

" I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me. "

" It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation. "

" In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. "

" People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn. "

" I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free. "

" Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. "

" I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. "

" What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine. "

" To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent. "

" Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now. "

" You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. "

" My mother loaned me $1000. The first issue came out at the end of 1953. I knew I needed something original. I had a photographer shoot a 3D feature for the first issue and learned it would cost too much money. When the 3D thing turned out to be too expensive, at that same moment I came across the photos of Marilyn Monroe. "

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" I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. "

" In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. "

" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "

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" Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. "

" When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer. "

" Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy. "

" The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. "

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" The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women. "